- 98-inch, 5,200-nit mini-LED with nearly 4,000 dimming zones
- 7-speaker sound system and gaming at up to 330Hz
- Around $2,250 (but it will cost a lot more elsewhere)
Xiaomi seems to have achieved something incredible: a very high-spec 98-inch mini LED TV at a very low price.
As observed by Notebookcheck.net, the 2026 TV S Pro Mini LED series appears to offer a similar type of spec to the very high-end TCL QM9K – and it does so at a price even lower than the much more affordable, mid-range TCL QM7K.
In the US, the TCL QM7K costs $4,999 for the 98-inch model (although that’s dropped to around half that in savings) – and the flagship QM9K is $5,999. But the new Xiaomi 98-inch mini LED is on sale in China for only ￥15,999. That’s about $2,250.
I’d take that price with a huge pinch of salt – not because it’s not genuine, but because what TVs sell for in China is not what they sell for when shipping, overhead and of course tariffs are applied in markets like the US. But that’s still an unusually low price for such a large TV, especially given the reported specification.
Xiaomi 2026 TV S Pro Mini LED: key features
The new TV has a maximum brightness of up to 5,700 nits with 3,864 dimming zones and a refresh rate of 165Hz for 4K content. But for gamers, it can display lower resolutions as low as 330Hz, making it an interesting competitor to the best gaming monitors – so fast that many gaming PCs would struggle to output at that speed.
Other gamer-friendly features include VRR and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro.
The 2026 model has Dolby Vision and HDR10+, three HDMI 2.1 ports and both USB 2 and 3 ports. And it comes with a remote similar to the one you get with an Apple TV 4K. There is Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 for wireless connectivity.
There’s a seven-speaker sound system with Harman AudioEFX, version 3 of Xiaomi’s HyperOS and the same XM9000 chip we saw in the 2025 models. And the promotional images show a Samsung-style photo mode that turns your TV into an attractive photo frame.
You can see the (Chinese) product page here and it all looks very impressive. What we don’t know yet is whether this TV will come to other markets to challenge the best TVs – Xiaomi has started launching TVs in western counties, though, so it’s possible. If it does, the really interesting part will be how much the price differs from what is being charged in China.
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